kevin, thank you for joining us. i want to get right to the questions, you have been in a lot of political films, you played a lobbyist, now, the house majority whip in "house of cards." you have been synonymous with politics. what is drawing you to the political roles? >> not only, as you know, wolf, i do a lot of theater and tlafr i can do shakespeare and more classical work. i'm driven by the opportunity to examine current things that are thatting in our world and i guess, when i look at the two other film thaus mention, "recount," which was good gore/bush election in florida and how many days it took us to find out who our president was and the lobbying industry and what it has done in terms of washington politics and examining that, in the story "casino jack," these are important subjects to understand, to see how we got where we are, and maybe, how can we make it better than it is. >> and reality is almost as outrageous as art. you cannot make it up half the time. >> you are right, kate, i would come back to th